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James
James

Reputation: 6499

Setting up simple POST response in rails

I'm making a simple POST request via jquery's .ajax function to a routed URL in rails, but can't get a simple response.

Is there any way of setting up a simple response in rails without using any of the AJAX helper functions? In PHP, you can just echo a simple response out, but rails seems to want to wrap everything in HTML.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1909

Answers (2)

Paul Nossoff
Paul Nossoff

Reputation: 108

For simple response (I guess you need just to output some text) you can use

render :text => "Whatever you need to response" #in your controller

Upvotes: 2

Robin
Robin

Reputation: 21884

I think you need to specify that you dont want to render the layout if request.xhr?.

In controller

layout :layout_for_type

def layout_for_type
   request.xhr? ? nil : "application"
end

Upvotes: 1

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